Portable steam-radiator heater.



N0. 894,445. PATENTED JULY 28, 1908.

W. R.'KINNEAR.

PORTABLE STEAM RADIATOR HEATER.

I APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, 1904:-

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[NI/EN TOR WILLlAALR. KI'NNEAR, 01+ NEW Yonien. Y.

Pon'raBriE STEAM-RADIATOR HEATER. i

S p' eeification of Letters l a tent Patented July as, 1908.

Application filed July 29, 1904; Serial No. 218,743.

To all whom it'may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. KINNEAR, a citizen of the United States, and resident of -the bo rough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Steam-Radiator Heaters, of which the following is a specification.

-My invention relates to a radiator heater, in which the heat conveying medium is steam supplied from a steam generator embodied in t. 1e construction of the apparatus, and the object of my invention is to provide a heater of this type which is of superior heating capacity, simple in construction and of sufficiently light weight to permit its being placed or shifted from place to place with ease.

Two embodiments of my invention are illustrated in the present application, one of which is designed more particularly as a fire place heater in which the gas su ply used for eating the generator may e obtained through a ermanent connection with the gas piping o .the building in which the heater is used, whereas,.the second embodiment of the invention, not differing materially in principle of construction, is designed more articularly for a detached heater that may e. laced in a room or any part of a room at will: and connected with a suitable gas supply through a flexibleor other connectioh.

In the accompanying drawings forming art of this specification, Figures 1, 2 and 3 illustrate the embodiment of my invention which is designed for a fire place heater, Fig. 1 being'a frof'itview," 2 a vertical section in a plane between two of the radiator units and I Fig. 3 a horizontal section in a plane immediately above the steam generator. Figs. 4 and 5 show the embodiment of the invention designed more particularly as a portable or movable heater, Fig. 4 being a frontelevation with one of the joints between two adjacent units of the radiator in axial section, and 5 being a vertical transverse section in a plane between'two of the units of the radiator. Fig. 6 is a vertical longitudinal section on an enlarged scale through the lower portion of one end of my improved heater, showing internal construction of parts incident to both embodiments of the invention. Fig. 7 is a detailed view of a filling plate used to sustain the walls of the end sections of; the radiator in.the line of a tie rod employed for holding the lower-portion. of

the radiator together. Figs.8 and 9 are axialv sions 1, plate, 10, a rear fplate 11, and a bottom plate grooves 13, formed on the I sections through a joint employed to detachably connect groups of units in assemlower panels D and E one or both of which may be made removable to give access to connections which have to be manipulated in operating the radiator. Frepresents a bottom front plate which may be ornamented in any suitable way and employed for obscuring the i greater portion of the burner and the space below the same. G represents a housing which incloses the rear end of the radiator and deflects heat outward into the room. 1 represents a radiator composed of a plurality of units suitably connected together by joints forming circulating passages between them at least at their lower ends. The end units of this radiator are extended downwardly by extensions 1 through which the main body-of the radiator is supportedin an elevated position while between these extensions 1 and supported upon them, are provided a steam generator 2, having a lower reduced portion 2 and connecting at 2 with the end sections of'the radiator, and a burner 3 which de livers a series of jets against the forwardly inclined front wall of the reduced portion of the generator, which is preferably provided with an asbestos or other finely divided rcfractory facing. Above the generator is a deflecting plate 4, while to one side oftlie radiator and extending through an end unit and into the burner 3, is a gas supply pipe 5, leading from a pipe 6 and controlled by valve 7. -8 represents a pipe through which water may be introduced into the steam generator.

Referring toFigs. 4 and 5 it'will be seen that the arrangement is substantially the same as that described with. reference to Figs. 1 to 3 like letters of reference connecting like parts, This ortable form, how:

ever, is preferably provi ed with-supporting legs 9, each of WlllCh is madein two parts suitably shapedto fit around and tobe clamped on to the lower ends of the exten- These legs support a front screen 12, by means 0 legs,

They also provide seats or grooves into which the straight lower reduced por tion 2 of the steam generator iits and atfords suitable support for the burner 3; all of these parts being securely locked in position between the legs or between the extensions of the radiator, by tie rod 14, which passes through the extensions, all of said.

' parts being drawn tightly together by nuts 15 on the ends of said rod. In order to sustain the thin walls fillin plates 16, are introduced between the walls of the extensions.

1 thus tying the parts together, said plates .beinggirovided with aperture 14 for the rod 14 an with recesses 2 to avoid obstructing the 0 ening tube 2 between the generator 2 and t e extensions 1 of the end units. In practice the generator will be connected with the end units by seam joints and said end units may also be provided with depressions in which the ends of the generator are made again separated into such multiples if it is desired to utilize a radiator in a small room and to correspondingly reduce its capacity. To meet these requirements, another feature ofmy present invention consists in uniting a number of sheet metal units by striking up bosses thereon and seaming these bosses together and provldlng the end units of such groups with suitably constructed bushings in Fig. 9.

which present the same external appearance as the bosses struck up on the units and are adapted to be connected at any time either with a pipe for supplying the heating medium or with a bushing in the end unit of an adj acent roup by the use of a right and left threa ed thimble. In order to this, a bushing 20, Fig. 8, having a i'rusto conical exterior, is provided with a angidar inner face over which the sheet metal may be bent as at 21 and a longitudinal lip 22, which is adapted to be expanded upon e sheet metal at 21 and notched or otherwise divided up to adapt it to be folded over the shoulder formed on the sheet metal, after the lip has been thus expanded, so as to bring the )arts into intimate interlocking relation as saown The bushings thus attached to the sheet metal are rendered steam and water. tight by galvanizing and two adjacent bushings may then be connected at any time by a right and left thimble 23.

The idea of forming the units in groups and connecting the groups together, and the particular form of circulating connection,

are not claimed herein but form the subject matter of a divisional application filed by me August 23, 1905.

accomplish Having thus described my invention the following is what I: claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A portable radiator heating device, comprising a plurality of narrow vertical units spaced apart to form air spaces between them, connections between the units form-- ing a circulating passage across the entire group, all of said unit-s extending upwardly to form radiating bodies above the circulating passage and two of said units also extending downwardly below said circulating passage; and a suitable generating chamber unconnected with and arranged in spaced relation to the lower ends of the intermediate units located between and having circulating connection with the downward. extensions below the circulating passage and provided with means for heating the circulating medium.

2. A portable radiator heating device comprising a plurality of narrow vertical radiator units; alined connections at their lower ends establishing a circulating conncction across the group; said units having their main radiating bodies extending above said circulating connection and connected together at their upper ends two of said units being provided with extensions below sa'l circulating connection; and a generating chamber unconnected with and arranged in spaced relation to the lower ends of the intermediate units located between and having circulating connection with the downward extensions and provided with means For heating the circulating medium therein.

3. In a portable radiator heating device, the combination of a horizontal series of vertically disposed. radiator units, cormcctions between the lower ends of the unit's, Forming a circulating passage across the series of units; said units extending vertically above said circulating connection and two of said units having downward extensions below said. circulating connection, and a generating chamber having means for heating the heat conveying medium therein unconnected with and arranged in spaced relation to the lower ends. of the intermediate units, and located between and abutting and connected with said downward extensions; and a tie rod extending through the downward extensions and holding them inv abutment with the heating chamber.

4. A radiator heating device comprising a plurality of radiator units, two of which have downward extensions provided with. supporting feet, a heater for the circulating medium, supported between said. extensions, deflectors adjacent to said heater, and grooves on the inner faces of the'ieet, in which the deflectors are supported.

5. A radiator heating device comprising a plurality oi vertical radiator units, means establishing communication between said units, a suitable generating chamber located drawing said extensions against the ends of below, connected to, and in communication. the heater, and filling plates introduced into with the end units, and spaced from the. in-- the extensions and supporting the walls termediate units, and a deflector arranged thereof against the tension of the tie-rod. l5- 5 between the intermediate units and-the gcn- The foregoing specification signed this 12 cratin chamber. day of July 1904.

6. X radiator heating device comprising a T l I T TT plurality of suitably connected radiator WILLIAM B" units, two of which have downward exten- In presence of 10 sions, a heater for the circulating medium RAYM ND H. DUNNS,

supported between said extensions a tie rod HERBERT W. HOWELL. 

